<p>As I said, what I meant by cutthroat is that it's really competitive in terms of grades- you will have to work extremely hard. Nobody will steal your notes, or do something like that- there won't be any sabotaging like that.</p>
<p>If you do well in HHBS (at least 3.4) and do well on your MCATs, Med School is of course very probable!</p>
<p>Penn sucks so does Brown, semen pools in collegetown...</p>
<p>WE DIDNT GO TO HARVARD!!</p>
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<p>sounds like someone's wearing their rejection letters on their sleeve.</p>
<p>We</a> Didn't Go to <a href="mailto:Harvard@Everything2.com">Harvard@Everything2.com</a></p>
<p>Or not</p>
<p>Haha I meant Human Biology Health and Society... if I get that wrong on the application I'm pretty much going to get rejected lol.</p>
<p>and s.dot got pwned :P</p>
<p>norcalguy: You're considered the resident genius of all things pre-medical on CC and even you didn't get an interview at Weill? Hmm, a 3.9 is quite stellar...
Which college at Cornell did you attend and what major(s)/minor(s)?</p>
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<p>As you'll soon find...medical school admissions is a complete crapshoot. Many stellar applicants are rejected from top schools. I used to want to attend a top 4 medical school...but after I chatted with a former adcom member for one of my state schools I changed my mind. Keep in mind...all US medical schools have to be accredited by the same agency and so standards are kept high for all US schools.</p>
<p>If it were any other school, it wouldn't be that surprising. I didn't get interviews to half of the schools I applied to. However, many med schools grant courtesy interviews to their undergrads (there are med schools out there that will literally interview every in-state applicant or every applicant from its undergrad). Clearly, Weill does not do courtesy interviews. </p>
<p>I was a bio major in CAS.</p>
<p>That can only be expected from medical schools, I guess. THey ARE after all highly sought after institutions that provide an amazing education.
I think for right now I need to focus my attentions on getting INTO Cornell HumEc and then worry about med school :P </p>
<p>Very nice. Can anyone quasi-rank the selectivity of the Cornell schools?</p>
<p>brown is a great place to premed...not cut throat at all, very collegial and people get into great schools at high rates</p>
<p>gap years are increasingly common and there are tons of productive ways to use the time</p>
<p>i'm not advocating one school or the other, but my advice would be to choose the school you most want to go to (gut) without worrying to much about which one is better for premeds or even the gap year</p>
<p>I agree dcircle, but is Brown truly better than Cornell? It may be more selective... but I believe Cornell is more well-rounded and structured. Brown's "take whatever you want" policy is confusing and restricting in and of itself.</p>
<p>dude, why would you want to wait a year, and not even do anything with it? College is the best part of your life, go to Cornell. Don't ruin it with the hippies. </p>
<p>haha.</p>
<p>Seriously though, in my experience, pre-med at Cornell is probably one of the best preparations you'll have for med school in the entire country. Additionally, the amount of research that takes place here, will inevitably be beneficial to you when it comes time to distinguish yourself. </p>
<p>Up to you though. And no, Brown is NOT more prestigious than Cornell.</p>
<p>That's good man, I'm going to apply for premed at Cornell Human Ecology.</p>
<p>Are you sure, cornell2011? Cornell is very prestigious, but I do think that Brown is, at least, more selective.</p>
<p>That's good man, I'm going to apply for premed at Cornell Human Ecology.</p>
<p>Are you sure, cornell2011? Cornell is very prestigious, but I do think that Brown is, at least, more selective.</p>
<p>But selective =/= prestigious..</p>
<p>You have to take into account the amount of different schools at Cornell, as well.</p>
<p>Additionally, if you compare Arts and Sciences to Brown which would be an appropriate comparison, you will quickly see that the selectivity is on par with the other ivies. Its just that Cornell is decentralized. </p>
<p>Off of the above point, selectivity doesn't mean prestige. I think prestige correlates much more strongly with quality of academic program and resoruces, which I think Cornell is a little bit ahead in (at least the resources part) not necessarily the academic quality part because that can't really be quanitified.</p>
<p>To be honest. If I were a pre-med and my main purpose is to get into med. school, I would most definitely go to Brown. Their grading policy makes it a GPA factory. For instance, you can drop your course even before the finals if you don't think you are getting the grade you hope for. And I was told that there is a policy that a grade below a B will not be recorded on your outside transcript. Your GPA will be a lot better than from Cornell and don't even have to go through the same stress. In addition, the open curriculum allows you to fill up the curriculum with a bunch of mickey mouse courses once you fulfill the pre-med requirements, thus again guaranteeing a high GPA. ( if you look at the admitted class of med. schools, you'll find there are tons of music majors, humanity majors because the schools are trying to get some students that are not coming out of a cookie cutter.) I know this might sound totally against the conventional ideal notion to getting an education. But let's be pragmatic about this. The GPA is the #1 thing to med. school applications. You can be a research genius, but if you don't have the GPA, you won't get through the first round of screening.</p>
<p>On the contrary, just for a contrast, I have many friends that went to bioengineering at Penn and Biomedical engineering at Cornell. They thought that the majors would help them to prepare well for a medical career. WEll right after the first two years, their dream of attending med. schools are dead because their GPA's have been ruined.</p>
<p>That's mainly because a ton of people going into BME think it'll be easy... my father does college advising and teaches BME, and a ton of people end up doing something else because they never intended to learn the "engineering" part of it (lack of fundamentals, belief of easy GPA, etc). In all honesty... people going into under-grad probably have no idea half of the stuff in BME is..</p>
<p>Also, I believe that med schools also look at your science gpas instead of the overall as well? So trying to add a buffer to it might not do (as) much.</p>
<p>To the OP, are you enrolled in I.B. program? Are you taking I.B. Chemistry, Biology or Physics? </p>
<p>If you are, you shouldn't be worried. You can go to any school. You are very prepared for university course load. A survey was conducted at University of British Columbia last year, and it was founded that I.B. students are well prepared for undergrad course load. If you think you want both prestige and preparation for med school and have taken I.B. program, choose Cornell over Brown.</p>
<p>I finished first semester Organic Chemistry in grade 11 I.B. Chem.</p>